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1 Post Graduate Degree Programme LukrdksÙkj mikf/k dk;zøe M.A..(Final) English,e-,- ¼mÙkjk)Z½ vaxzsth Home Assignment for Internal Evaluation vkrafjd ewy;kadu gsrq l=h; ¼x`g½ dk;z MAEG-05 to MAEG-11 Department of English ¼vaxzsth fohkkx½ Submit 45 days before your Term-end examination l=kad ijh{kk dh frffk ls 45 fnu ekg iwoz tek djok,a Session/l= % 2014&2015 Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University Rawatbhata Road, Kota (Raj.) M.A.English Programme (Final) Scholar number Ss Name of the Student: Father s name : Address : Name of programme: Code of Programme: Name of study centre: Name of regional centre:

2 Principles of Criticism MAEG What is the theme of Aristotle s Poetics? 2. What is the test a reader should apply according to Dr. Johnson when one reads the work of a writer? 3. What are the two driving forces of the writers? 4. What do you mean by aesthetics? Q5 Write a note on Leavis s views on an ideal critic. Q6 Discuss Imagery Homelands as a critical work. Q7 Write a note on the nature Rasa. Q8 Anand s fiction may be called a literature of protest. Discuss Q9 Q10 Make an attempt on the classification of Vakrokti. Describe Aristotle s concept of tragedy in Poetics.

3 Victorian Literature MAEG Who is Firdausi? 2. What is the general theme of The Windhover? 3. What do Terrible Sonnets represent? 4. Name five important characters in Silas Marner. Q5 Arnold as a literary critic. Discuss. Q6 Q7 Q8 What imagery is used in the poem The Windhover? Write down the summery of the poem- Carrion Comfort. Discuss the theme of the poem The Deserted Garden Q9 Browning s characterisation establishes him as a poet of man. Explain with suitable examples. Q10 Discuss the symbolic devices employed by Dickens in Great Expectations

4 Twentieth Century MAEG What is the Theatre of Absurd? 2. Why does John Savage kill himself at the end of the novel Brave New World? 3. What are the two types of love according to Auden in the poem September 1, 1939? 4. What is the primary theme of Sailing to Byzantium? Q5 Discuss how the two poems of Auden reflect the Second World War in the background. Q6 Write short note on the imagery in the poem Fern Hill. Q7 Write a critical appreciation of the poem In Memory of W.B.Yeats. Q8 What is the significance of the bears and squirrels game in the play? Q9 Analyse the portrayal of human relationship by D.H.Lawrence. Q10 Do you agree that Brave New World is a satiric ridiculing the scientific Utopia of H.G.Wells? Discuss.

5 Indian Writings in English & the Translation MAEG What is the subject of the long narrative poem Savitri written by Sarojini Naidu? 2. Who narrates the story in the novel Kanthapura? 3. What kind of relationship is there between dharma and his wife in the novel Voices in the City? 4. What does the tree symbolizes in the poem Our Casuarina Tree? Q5 Discuss, Tagore as a poet of Western Romantic and Eastern Mystical Tradition. Q6 Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem Night of the Scorpion. Q7 Discuss Gandhian impact on Kanthapura. Q8 Comment on the element of Irony and Satire in The Guide. Q9 Write a note on Autobiographical Genre in English writings. Q10 Mahesh Dattani s play Final Solutions deals with the theme of communalism. Discuss.

6 Postcolonial Literature MAEG-09 Q1 What is ethnic separation? Q2 Q3 Q4 What do you know about Qurban Ali of A Letter from India? What similarities does Atwood find in the human psyche and the Canadian environment? What happens in the climax scene of Tale Danda? Q5 Describe in brief A Letter from India as a postcolonial text. Q6 Write a short note on the major themes and issues discussed in Urmil Pawar s My Four Enemies Q7 Comment upon the similies and metaphors used by Atwood in Journey Q8 to the Interior. Discuss the relevance of the title Things Fall Apart? Q9 Compare the attitudes of Shiv K.Kumar and Kamala Das towards women. What is it what is that makes them different? Q10 What is the significance of postcolonial literary theory? How does it help us to analyze postcolonial literature?

7 American Literature MAEG-10 Q1 Who wrote Song of Myself and in which year? Q2 The Road Not Taken is from which volumes of poem and in which year it was published? Q3 Q4 Who is Fredric Henry? What does Eugene O Neil speaks about the origin of his play The Emperor Jones? Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Write a note on the themes of Racism and Slavery deletion in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Bring out the salient features of Frost as a poet of rural life. Discuss the relationship of the various characters in the story Vitamins. Critically appreciate Raymond Carver s story A Small Good Thing. Q9 Discuss the fusion of the theme of love and war in A Farewell to Arms. Q10 Isolation or alienation is an important theme of The Scarlet Letter. Discuss

8 Canadian Literature MAEG-11 1 Name two poets of third phrase. 2 Name two poems of Al Purdy prescribed in your syllabus. 3 Who was Gustad? 4 Who wrote Power Politics? Q5 Write short notes on Canadian drama and Canadian fiction. Q6 Attempt a critical appreciation of My beautiful wooden leader. Q7 Express your views about the theme of The Fire Dwellers with suitable references from the text. Q8 Critically examine with examples from the poem The Shark. Q9 What are the major themes of the novel Surfacing? Elucidate with examples from the text. Q10 What do you understand by the term Diaspora? Discuss Uma Parameswaran as a diasporic writer with examples from the text.